More from the Sci-Fi Wire:
Writer/director Darren Aronofsky wants to make one thing clear: His upcoming epic film The Fountain is definitely science fiction, he told SCI FI Wire. “I’m glad we’re talking about this,” Aronofsky said in an interview. “It’s a really upsetting thing, because I’ve met people on the road who go, ‘This isn’t sci-fi because there aren’t ray guns.’ They haven’t said it that obviously, but that’s their point. And the fact that science fiction in movies has been so hijacked by techno-lust and by hardware ‘button sci-fi,’ as we call it, where everything is, if it’s not buttons, it’s now holographs.”
We so often hear the exact opposite from filmmakers, as if “science fiction” was some kind of dirty word, a genre ghetto to be avoided at all cost, that this is really refreshing. I’ve been reading really mixed things about The Fountain — even the critics who like it are cautious in their enthusiasm — but I’m definitely interested in seeing it.